No openers, no local bands, no support bands just a few hours with Machine Head. Tickets are still available for select shows. If you’ve ever been to a Machine Head show and left thinking “that was awesome but I wished they would have played your favorite song” then these are the shows for you.

With new albums from legendary bands like Judas Priest and At The Gates, side project releases like Killer Be Killed and live albums or compilations from Metallica and Iron Maiden there was a lot of good metal to keep the speakers cranked throughout the year. This weekend inside the Hangar re-live all the great moments in metal from the year and some of the bad ones.

In 2014 we also lost some legendary members of the metal community like Dave Brockie or otherwise known as Oderus Urungus frontman of the band GWAR. Plus Wayne Static of the nu-metal band Static-X.

Crank up the new memories as we recap the year that was this weekend inside Hangar 19.

If the name Dave Lombardo doesn’t immediately ring a bell maybe this will help. Dave is one of the founding members of Slayer, playing drums in the legendary band through out the 80’s and again in the 2000’s. He also played on Testament’s 1999 album The Gathering. Then there are his many other projects like Grip Inc. or his newest band Philm and being the drummer for the Mike Patton fronted The Fantomas. That’s a lot of killer metal coming from one guy, good thing Dave Lombardo is joining us in the Hangar this weekend to walk us through it all.

With all the many projects of Dave Lombardo he will be involved in all our normal features like The Fantoma’s album The Director’s Cut being the subject of our Heavy Metal soundtrack recommendation. Then we will crank up Testament for our Power Set and go In the Vault with Grip Inc.

But for our Then and Now we go back to one of the best metal releases of 2014, Exodus’ Blood in, Blood Out. The title track will the now for an Exodus Then & Now. In the meantime check out the video.

Released 33 years ago this week Mob Rules is the 2nd album from Dio era of Black Sabbath. One listen to this album and you know that if Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice this era of Sabbath could have been as big and maybe bigger than the Ozzy fronted version of Sabbath. That’s saying something when we’re talking about the band that invited heavy f****** metal! It’s just hard to deny the magic that Dio and Iommi had together.

Artist: Black Sabbath

Album: Mob Rules

Release Date: November 4, 1981

Recommended listening: Turn Up the Night, The Mob Rules, The Sign of the Southern Cross

This is my favorite album of all time. It’s just a masterpiece. This album is EVERYTHING Heaven and Hellwas, but with a TON more fire and energy behind the band. Songs like “Voodoo” and the title track are some of Iommi’s best riffs of all time. Period. Any era of Sabbath. Then you have songs like “Falling Off the Edge of the World” and “The Sign of the Southern Cross” which shows an ambitious side of Sabbath, which was never, ever seen before this album. “Slipping Away” has an amazingly powerful Dio chorus, and “Over and Over” might be one of Sabbath’s most depressing songs ever. Where Heaven and Hell had, what I consider to be, safer, more melodically focused material, Mob Rules is straight up heavy Sabbath material, with that untouchable Dio kick to it. Vinny Appice adds a rock solid groove that this album needed, and really compliments Geezer Butler well in a different way than Bill Ward did. He’s not as busy as Bill Ward, any my preference for Vinny is by no means a knock on Bill Ward, but I think Vinny is far heavier, and just has a great groove for these songs.

Hangar 19 relives the glory days of classic metal and features music from the artists who built this explosive genre, including Megadeth, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Pantera, Metallica, Anthrax, Korn, Slayer and Marilyn Manson.

Hangar 19 stops down from the nostalgia just long enough to highlight new metal in a weekly “Then and Now” segment and to interview the metal greats that helped mold the speaker-shredding musical movement.